Monday, October 30, 2006

My dear God,

After a very hectic, long week of work with four nights of meetings, two nights home at 11:30 p.m. I was simply too tired to go into work. So I stayed at home to rest.

A few weeks ago I purchased a video entitled, "Five People You Meet in Heaven". I had read the book and loved it. So I lay in bed watching the movie. "I was in your life for a reason," the characters told Eddie. Five people visited Eddie following his death. They helped him discover the purpose of his life.

At the end I wept. (I'm a sucker for an emotional film) But I wept because I really believe that God has a purpose for each person. Eddie figured his out. I thought of my own life and some of the ways I am trying to live out my purpose in life.

I thought back to my dance that I offered to God just a few days ago. Moving freely and joyfully to the song taken from Psalm 42, I was telling God that like the psalmist, "my soul longs for thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God..." At that moment, those four minutes that I danced, I do believe I was living my purpose just as God intended. For I know that my life's greatest purpose is to love God. I can do that many ways. When I am loving God through dancing, prayer, ministry, counselling, or just caring for people, I am in my greatest joy. I feel the fulfillment of my purpose and the whole of me is filled with joy and gratitude.

Who will my five people be?

To love you
is to experience ecstasy,
fulfillment
and joy.
To know my purpose
is a gift,
a blessing.
To be open to the ways
of living my purpose
is to live in anticipation,
an expectancy
because
I know that you lead me
to my purpose daily.
You show me new ways
to love you,
to live my purpose
in the world.
I am blessed,
so incredibly blessed;
for I know
that no situation or condition,
no happening,
no sorrow or darkness
can stop me from my purpose.
Even death
cannot take away my purpose
for my purpose is God's plan
for me.
Together,
we live together,
you and I,
sharing in the great cosmos
your love for all of us
and my love for you,
a purpose
daily being fulfilled,
my life's greatest joy.

Eternally grateful, Andrea